-
Welcome to the WDWMAGIC.COM Forums!
Please take a look around, and feel free to sign up and join the community.
Fastpass for sale
- Thread starter mitchs
- Start date
ldsprincess
New Member
hmm..i just went and looked. it seems pretty shady tho. -->"They have expiration dates of 6/20 & 6/27 but that will not prevent you from using them as cast members will not turn you away." that sounds waaaay weird and not very promising. idk. maybe someone else here knows more reliable details about this, but it seems kinda dumb to purchase something like this. fastpasses are free and while you have to wait an hour before getting another, it's not that big of a deal. i hope no one falls into buying these things!
They're usually sold as an envelope with the fastpasses as a value added component. There's no law against this.
As for CM's not enforcing this... it could be one of many things..
A- they don't care
B- they're the ones selling the fastpasses
C- they don't care
D- they don't know better
E- they don't care
F- they don't want to potentially get yelled at when they turn someone away using them
G- they don't care
H- all of the above
I- A, C, E, and G
As for CM's not enforcing this... it could be one of many things..
A- they don't care
B- they're the ones selling the fastpasses
C- they don't care
D- they don't know better
E- they don't care
F- they don't want to potentially get yelled at when they turn someone away using them
G- they don't care
H- all of the above
I- A, C, E, and G
That's a myth. Right from ebay
Actually Disney has some of these auctions shut down. They don't catch all of them.
I'll agree with B, I suspect some CMs, or their friends, are the sellers. These aren't regular FP but rather the re-entry passes guests get if a ride breaks down.
I can't be bothered but if bothers others just report the auction to Disney and to ebay.
SteveUK
Member
You will report it...?
I know many people don't approve and seem to think Disney have some magical world ruling powers, but I'm not sure what the people on ebay are actually doing wrong. I certainly can't see any laws being violated. Dishonest - maybe, illegal - no. And what power do Disney exercise over private commercial transactions?
I know many people don't approve and seem to think Disney have some magical world ruling powers, but I'm not sure what the people on ebay are actually doing wrong. I certainly can't see any laws being violated. Dishonest - maybe, illegal - no. And what power do Disney exercise over private commercial transactions?
Captain Hank
Well-Known Member
Recently, the re-entry and rider-switch passes have been printed with "NOT FOR SALE" on the middle of the pass.
Mickey_Mouse
New Member
can't believe people would buy fastpasses - THEY ARE FREE ON THE DAY!!
Crazy
Crazy
Jimmy Thick
Well-Known Member
Well, I'm thinking about selling ADR's, I can get a ton of them. Some I don't even use.
I can see my web page now:
Have your magical dinner wherever and whenever you want it at...
This could be monumental!
I can see my web page now:
Have your magical dinner wherever and whenever you want it at...
This could be monumental!
Aaronmckie
New Member
Yeah, I could see Le Celliar ADR's selling for quite a bit (I know I'd at least take a peek :lookaroun )
Tim G
Well-Known Member
Vely funny, vely funny :lookaroun :lookaroun :lookaroun
I don't believe they even use those anymore
It's against ebay's policies... yes, but I said against the law. And there is still no law against that
And Disney can ask ebay to shut the auctions down... which ebay will usually comply with. But they have the right to tell Disney where to stick it. By the time legal does anything about it, the item will have been sold and it will have shipped.
daklimation
New Member
Oh yeah, I'm well aware about the re-ads... and I may or may not have a short stack from across the parks in my great big book of Disney paper collection :zipit:
coilback
Active Member
Well with the Ebay thing, they have what they call VeRO companies (Verified Right's Owners), a few companies such as Glock, Fender, etc monitor the ads and have the rights (thru an agreement with Ebay) to tell Ebay to shut them down. If you wish to be able to appeal it, you have to get the VeRO to actually send a letter to Ebay stating that it's ok for you to sell that item. Ebay is all about the concept of CYA (Cover Your...). I know this because I've spent several years selling on Ebay and have run into these issues before. Ebay keeps you from selling a LOT of different things that are perfectly legal, but for one reason or another, doesn't like you selling.
On the Disney angle, Disney doesn't like it because it ruins the concept of FastPasses. So many are issued per time period in order to keep the lines short and moving for FastPass users. That's the reason they have an expiration. With shows such as Indy and LMA (I think LMA uses FP), the FastPasses given out are calculated into the capacity of the theater and therefore helps to decide how many standby people are allowed in. If a bunch of people with expired FastPasses are allowed in, it destroys the whole mechanics of it all. Having said that, the myth that CMs will take an expired FastPass no matter what isn't true at all. It depends on the CM and the attraction. If it's a capacity issue, then you will be turned away. Usually if a manager is present, you will at least be turned away at first. True, as with anything Disney, if you throw a big fit, you MIGHT get something out of it (either being let in or some alternative), but then again, do you really want to sit there and go through a bunch of drama just to get in a bit quicker ? It's so much easier to just get your FP like normal.
Having said that, I do have a few laying around, but they are more for Scrapbook purposes for my friends and such who want them.
On the Disney angle, Disney doesn't like it because it ruins the concept of FastPasses. So many are issued per time period in order to keep the lines short and moving for FastPass users. That's the reason they have an expiration. With shows such as Indy and LMA (I think LMA uses FP), the FastPasses given out are calculated into the capacity of the theater and therefore helps to decide how many standby people are allowed in. If a bunch of people with expired FastPasses are allowed in, it destroys the whole mechanics of it all. Having said that, the myth that CMs will take an expired FastPass no matter what isn't true at all. It depends on the CM and the attraction. If it's a capacity issue, then you will be turned away. Usually if a manager is present, you will at least be turned away at first. True, as with anything Disney, if you throw a big fit, you MIGHT get something out of it (either being let in or some alternative), but then again, do you really want to sit there and go through a bunch of drama just to get in a bit quicker ? It's so much easier to just get your FP like normal.
Having said that, I do have a few laying around, but they are more for Scrapbook purposes for my friends and such who want them.